Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. YET - rather, Then. I WILL DISTRESS ARIEL, AND THERE SHALL BE HEAVINESS AND SORROW. There is a play on like sounds in the Hebrew ( ta'ªniyaah (H8386) wa'ªniyaah (H592)), groaning and moaning. AS ARIEL - either, 'the city shall be as a lion of God' - i:e., it shall emerge from its dangers unvanquished; or, 'it shall be as the altar of burnt offering,' consuming with fire the besiegers (Isaiah 29:6; Isaiah 30:30;...

2._But I will bring Ariel into distress_. I think that ו (_vau_) should here be taken for a disjunctive conjunction: “And yet I will execute my judgments and take vengeance, though, by delaying them for a time, it may seem as if I had forgiven.” He next threatens that he will give them _grief _and _mourning_, instead of the joy of the festivals. אניה (ă_nīāh_) is viewed by some as an adjective, (254) but improperly; for it is used in the same manner by Jeremiah. (255) (Lamentations 2:5.) He declares that the Lord will reduce that city to straits, that the Jews might know that they had to contend with God, and not with men, and that, though the war was carried on by the Assyrians, still they might perceive that God was their lead

1-8 Ariel may signify the altar of burnt-offerings. Let Jerusalem know that outward religious services will not make men free from judgements. Hypocrites never can please God, nor make their peace with him. God had often and long, by a host of angels, encamped round about Jerusalem for protection and deliverance; but now he fought against it. Proud looks and proud language shall be brought down by humbling providences. The destruction of Jerusalem's enemies is foretold. The army of Sennacherib went as a dream; and thus the multitudes, that through successive ages fight against God's altar and worship, shall fall. Speedily will sinners awake from their soothing dreams in the pains of hell....

Verse Isaiah 29:2. _THERE SHALL BE HEAVINESS AND SORROW_ - "There shall be continual mourning and sorrow"] Instead of your present joy and festivity. _AND IT SHALL BE UNTO ME AS ARIEL_ - "And it shall be unto me as the hearth of the great altar."] That is, it shall be the seat of the fire of God; which shall issue from thence to consume his enemies. See note on Isaiah 29:1. Or, perhaps, all on flame; as it was when taken by the Chaldeans; or covered with carcasses and blood, as when taken by the Romans: an intimation of which more distant events, though not immediate subjects of the prophecy, may perhaps be given in this obscure passage....

YET I WILL DISTRESS ARIEL - The reference here is doubtless to the siege which God says Isaiah 29:3 he would bring upon the guilty and formal city. AND THERE SHALL BE HEAVINESS AND SORROW - This was true of the city in the siege of Sennacherib, to which this probably refers. Though the city was delivered in a sudden and remarkable manner (see the note at Isaiah 29:7), yet it was also true that it was reduced to great distress (see Isaiah 36; Isaiah 37) AND IT SHALL BE UNTO ME AS ARIEL - This phrase shows that in...

EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, and that their adoption of measures directly antagonistic to the commands of God will bring on the very evil which they are seeking to avert, and cause Jerusalem to be actually besieged by her enemies. In the present passage he distinctly announces the siege, and declares that it will commence within a year. ISAIAH 29:1 WOE TO ARIEL, TO ARIEL, THE CITY WHERE DAVID DWELT! "Ariel' is clearly a myst

YET I WILL DISTRESS ARIEL,.... Or "straiten" it, by causing it to be besieged; and this he would do, notwithstanding their yearly sacrifices, and their observance of their solemn feasts, and other ceremonies of the law, in which they placed their confidence, and neglected weightier matters: AND THERE SHALL BE HEAVINESS AND SORROW; on account of the siege; by reason of the devastations of the enemy without, made on all the cities and towns in Judea round about; and because of the famine and bloodshed in the city: AND IT SHALL BE UNTO ME AS ARIEL; the whole city shall be as the altar; as that was covered with the blood and carcasses of slain beasts, so this with the blood and carcasses of men; and so the Targum, "and I will distress the city where the altar is, and it shall be desolate and empty; and it shall be surrounded before me with the blood of the slain, as the altar is surrounde...

CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. _The people's condition: Blinded and religious formalists (Isaiah 29:9)_ 4. _The third woe (Isaiah 29:15)_ 5. _In that Day: joy and blessing for the meek and iniquity punished (Isaiah 29:17) _ Ariel means “the lion of God.” It is one of the names of Jerusalem. A great siege of Jerusalem is predicted. Neither Sennacherib's invasion nor the sie

ISAIAH 29. THE DOOM OF ARIEL. Possibly Isaiah 29:7 f., with most of Isaiah 29:5, is an insertion to turn a prophecy of judgment into one of mercy. Isaiah 29:1 is then a prophecy of ruin to Jerusalem, visited meaning visited in judgment (Isaiah 24:18). Isaiah 29:16 also seems to be late. Woe is pronounced in Isaiah 29:15 on the promoters of the Egyptian alliance, who sought to conceal their plans from God, and we should expect the prophecy to continue with a prediction of pu

AS ARIEL. as. veritable hearth of GOD....